Based on a survey of 17 institutions in 14 States and the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the study is the first effort to date to evaluate and compare the impact of correctional grievance mechanisms. "Mechanism" is used in a generic sense throughout this study and maybe defined as any administrative process through which the complaints of…

To compare the effects of hypothesis testing strategy training and paired associate training on the verbal abstraction performance of mentally handicapped adolescents, 50 male educable mentally handicapped in residence at a state school were tested. Subjects receiving strategy-oriented training learned to test out associates against nouns that…

The text of Volume 4 represents an international review of research in mental retardation dealing primarily with human and animal laboratory behavior. The contents range through the following topics: memory processes in retardates and normals by Norman Ellis; a theory of primary and secondary familial mental retardation by Arthur Jensen;…

Letter-letter, letter-number, and number-letter paired associates were used in this A-B, B-C, A-C study. There were two A-C lists, the positive-transfer stimulus-items of one became the negative-transfer stimulus-items of the other, and vice versa. Twenty subjects were included and each learned one A-C list. The main effects included, among…

The relationship between staff orientations and children's performance levels is examined by comparing correlations obtained on these factors in centralized and decentralized institutions for neglected, dependent, abused, and disturbed children. Comparisons are also made of results obtained on the performance of new admissions, children in care…

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a supplementary program of 30 lessons to increase the productive thinking abilities (divergent thinking) of educable mentally handicapped students. An experimental group of 30 institutionalized children were given the supplementary lessons at a rate of three per week. The lessons, based…

An audiometric screening survey was conducted on a severely and profoundly mentally retarded population using noise-makers and pure tone audiometry. Of those tested with noise-makers, 83% gave an identifiable response to sound, 7% did not respond, and 10% were considered difficult-to-test. By contrast, 4% passed, 2% failed, and 94% were…

Presented are guidelines on planning and establishing a small, residential halfway house for the male adolescent/adult retardate in which mental health and use of the halfway house to replace institutionalization of selected retardates are emphasized. The halfway house is explained to be planned on premises of community participation and program…

Project READ (Reading Efficiency and Delinquency) during its first year involved 4,330 juveniles in 47 states and the District of Columbia. Designed to improve the reading ability of incarcerated juvenile offenders, the program was based on two important facts. A survey of correctional institutions during 1974 assessed the reading abilities of…

A description and evaluation of Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I-funded programs for the state of Oklahoma are reviewed in this report. The project components include the following: remedial reading, speech therapy, learning disabilities, underachievers, remedial math, remedial language arts, remedial science, special education, and…

The present study investigated the potential of modeling or observational learning in resocializing asocial psychiatric patients. Patients received one of three treatments: modeling, instructions, or attention. The effects of the treatment indicated that the modeling and instruction groups were of equal impact and superior to the attention group.…

Four hospitalized female schizophrenics performed self ratings on a battery of variables for 60 consecutive days. The results are discussed in relation to nomothetic vs. idiographic systems of psychology and the study of intraindividual change by P-technique as a methodology of clinical interest. (DEP)

This paper describes some of the problems encountered in the delivery of human services to a county jail population. The authors' primary intention is to suggest the need to examine the effect of rehabilitation programs on reducing tension and anxiety levels among the jail populations. (Author)

The purpose of the research project involving 392 Ss (3 1/2 to 13 1/2 years old) was to identify children with psychotic behavior in the institutions for the mentally retarded in Denmark and to analyze psychotic behavior. (Author/SBH)